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Show ,' GERMAN PAPERS BOOSTING BONDS Forty-one Nationalities Are ; Participating in Great Lib-1 Lib-1 erty Loan Drive. WASHINGTON. April' 19. "Kauft Frelheit bonds. " This Is the appeal made to every reader of German langauge newspapers newspa-pers and magazines published in the United States these days in news and editorial columns and advertising pages "Buy Liberty bonds," urge the editors ln the language of Ameri-ca's Ameri-ca's enemies Clippings displayed today at nation al liberty loan headquarters indicated that the Germanic language papers in this country are devoting proportionately proportion-ately more span to the preaching of the necessity for oversubscribing the loan as a means of defeating Germany, than are other daily nowspapers other oth-er foreign language newspapers are equally active on behalf of tho war credit, including the Huncaiian, Bulgarian Bul-garian und Turkish publications. Work Bearing Fruit. Their work is bearinc fruit, according accord-ing to reports to Hans Rleg, a native of Germany, director of the foreign language section of the liberty loan or ganliation, for thousands of subscriptions subscrip-tions have been fathered from the foreicn language districts of American Ameri-can cities since the campaign started. Here are some of the liberty bond headlines noted in paper which reached headquarters todaj "Liberty Boundot." Hungarian "Koopt nu vandaag rijheide bonds " Dutch. "Prestlte della liberla "Italian. "FrihedS bond." -Norwegian. "Bondow welnosciowych." Polish. "Bond avobody "Bohemian. "Aeheiez voire bona do la liberta." French. Forty-one nationalities are participating partici-pating In the third liberty loan cam- palgn, and practically all are represented repre-sented bv newspapers which lead In the work' These Include Chinese, Japanese, Jap-anese, Turkish. Arabic, Greek, He-brew, He-brew, (Jkranian, Flemish, Finnish, ; Danish, and other Scandinavian nationalities, na-tionalities, Armenian. Assyrian, For tuguese and Spanish Campaign Work Carefully Organized. Throughout the country, the campaign cam-paign work has been carefully "Organized "Organ-ized Hans Rieg. the director, who speaks eleven languages, traveled for weeks before the loan opened, holding I rallies and d 1 1 loping fighting plani I ol foreign-language committees In the principal cities. In their native tongues, he addressed meetings of Ger- Imans, French, Italians, Spaniards. I Norwegians, Swedes. Hollanders. j Poles Rumanians and Danes. Reports now being receied tell of .i multitude of small subscriptions pouring into local lo-cal headquarters from these adopted sons of America I For instance, the town Of Standtsh In. Y.. near Plattsburg. with 300 population, popu-lation, nearly all of whom are foreign born laborers, has subscribed $37,000, or six times its quota At six meetine.- held recentlv ln Baltimore, $1.12.',,nun I was pledged by Italians. Bohemians. I Polen. Lithuanians, Jews and I ! rmant Cleveland's loan committee boasts thai i jt includes representatives of 81 nationalities na-tionalities In the Chicago district I 29 nationalities are organized for the loan, and in one week they obtained j $5,000,000 subscriptions |